An avalanche in the French Alps killed two Italian mountain climbers and injured another on Tuesday, rescue officials said. The injured Italian climber was evacuated to a hospital in nearby Annecy, 25 miles (41 kilomters) south of Geneva, Switzerland, after the avalanche that occurred at 4 a.m. on Mont Blanc du Tacul, a 14,000-foot (4,248 meter) peak that is one of the most popular routes to the summit of Mont Blanc, western Europe's highest peak at 15,782 feet (4,810 meters). The mountain search and rescue service in Chamonix said that bad weather prevented them initially from using helicopters to reach the site of the accident, AP reported.
